Gomphichis macbridei C.Schweinf. 1941
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Photo by © PAUL HARCOURT DAVIES The Science Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © Gordon W Dillon <
Common Name Macbride's Gomphichis [American Original Collector of Species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador and Huianuco department of Peru high up in the Andes on grassy slopes at elevations around 1800 to 1900 meters as a large sized, cold growing terrestrial with a basal, rosulate, 6 to 7, linear-oblong, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, glabrous below, densely tomentose above, 36" [90 cm] long, rachis 7.2 to 8" [18 to 20 cm] long, plicate, loosely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the flowers floral bracts and carrying densely pubescent externally flowers.
No known similar species as the white, 3 nerved petals and deep yellow lip are very characteristic both in color and in the green nerves of the lip.
Synonyms Stenoptera macbridei (C.Schweinf.) L.O.Williams 1942
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 9: 58 C Schweinfurth 1941
Caldasia 1(5): 13 L O Williams 1942 as Stenoptera macbridei
Flora of Ecuador No 9 225[1] Garay 1978 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 059 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 Photo not = G caucana;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 4 #1997 pg 851 Dodson 2003 photo fide;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as G sp pg 148 photo fide;
Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 pg 149 photo not = ?;
Plant Syst Evol 301: 61. Nowak, S., Szlachetko, D.L., Mytnik-Ejsmont, J. et al. 2015
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